How I can help
Through writing, movement and the sky, I help others find their Way.
Writing and research, talks, Qigong, and astrology read through Oriental medicine: one practice with a few doors. Begin with the one you want to open.
The page
Uncovering what matters.
Research. Writing. Editing. Programs. Outreach.
A proposal that needs shaping, a manuscript that needs a developmental edit, a program that needs its story: I write research briefs, proposals and workshop material, and design creative programs and the outreach that fills them, from a sold-out public program at the Denver Art Museum to talks across the Carolinas. Most recently, developmental editing for a forthcoming book on contemplative cosmology, astrology and somatic practice.
Trained in the humanities and in medicine, I read a subject the way an archaeologist reads a site: layer by layer, until what's buried comes to light.
Writing, editing and research projects are welcome.
The room
I connect.
People. Places. Ideas. Communities. Businesses.
I connect people with fresh approaches and ideas, and with their own self-awareness: through the mind-body connection, and through ancestral and astrological patterns.
Talks for organizations and the people they bring together: workplaces and professional development, alumni and member events, conferences and retreats, libraries and museums, coffee and tea houses. Subjects to bring to your group:
- Chinese medicine and herbology
- Qigong
- Astrological cycles and journeys
- Green burial as land conservation
- The Brandcestral Journey™, as consultant and co-presenter with BrandED Consultants Group
Coming up
- Thu, Oct 22Rising Tea House: Sipping the Celestial 1, The Cauldron & The Descent, with Sky + Soul Collective. 7 PM.
- Sun, Oct 25Rising Tea House: Qigong. Suggested donation $15–20.
- Thu, Nov 5Estate Preservation Law Firm: green burial and land conservation. To attend, write to me.
- Thu, Nov 5Rising Tea House, 6 PM: Rooted Legacy & Living Earth, a talk for Kings Mountain Preserve. Suggested donation $10–15.
- Sat, Nov 7York County Library: green burial and land conservation
- Sat, Nov 14Online, 10 AM to Noon MT: the Brandcestral Journey™ Personal Branding Workshop, with Rex Whisman of BrandED Consultants Group.
- Thu, Nov 19Rising Tea House: Sipping the Celestial 2, Overcoming & Reflection
- Thu, Dec 10Rising Tea House: Sipping the Celestial 3, The Myth of Inanna & Venus in Motion
- Thu, Jan 14Rising Tea House: Sipping the Celestial 4, Venus & Mars in 2027
The body
Coming back into the body.
Breath. Balance. Mobility. Ease.
Qigong that frees the joints and steadies the breath, for people who want to keep their balance and mobility, their core strength and energy centered.
Presence starts in the body. I work with actors and public speakers to gather and concentrate their energy before they step out, so it reaches their audience and reduces their anxiety and physical stress.
One-on-one and group sessions, from twenty years of integral yoga and holistic Qigong.
Small groups. No performance. You leave with something you can do tomorrow morning on your own.
The water
The patterns you inherited.
Ancestors. Archetypes. Cycles. Timing.
A reading looks for what came down to you and where you are carrying it. Western tropical, whole sign houses, a lunar thread from the Vedic side, and asteroids.
What you get is the reading and a short plan for what to do with it, so it doesn't end up in a drawer.
Featured
Selected work
Medicine as Art / Art as Medicine
A public program I designed and led at the Denver Art Museum, bringing together artists who were also practitioners. It sold out. I introduced each speaker, guided the day, and co-presented Qigong with my teacher, Henry Wu.
Emanations
An experimental film I co-created, screened in the United States and Europe and recognized at a festival in France.
Sky + Soul Collective
A home for talks and workshops, started in 2026 with the astrologer Mary.
The shore
Gallery
Photographs and writing, side by side. Open any of my photographs for a closer look.
Some mornings when the mist clears
At Some Point I Decided
I streak my fingers through the wet of the cold mirrorA flat light against dark
At Some Point I Decided
It sits there
Does not moveThe glaring, gleaming dawn is swift
From the Tower Sleeping
It thrusts shafts of light that
Break open the green of my eyesWhen the sky is dry and cracks with stars
At Some Point I Decided
In this month Orion keeps the key in his belt
I also help clients with product and atmospheric photographs: a product, a space or a practice shown in its setting, for websites, social posts, newsletters, menus, event listings and press kits.
Write to me
A project, a talk, a class, a reading, or a line about something you read here. A few lines is plenty.
